Greens

• Friends of the Earth Cookbook by Veronica Sekules
  Penguin, 192 pp, £1.95, April 1980, ISBN 0 14 046302 X
• Hedgerow Cookery by Rosamond Richardson
  Penguin, 250 pp, £1.95, April 1980, ISBN 0 14 046358 5
• Jane Grigson’s Cookery Book by Jane Grigson
  Penguin, 606 pp, £2.50, April 1980, ISBN 0 14 046352 6
• Cooking with Vegetables by Marika Hanbury Tenison
  Cape, 284 pp, £9.50, May 1980, ISBN 0 224 01597 4
• The Home Gardener’s Cookbook by Clare Walker
  Penguin, 362 pp, £1.75, April 1980, ISBN 0 14 046353 4
• Natural Baby Food by Anna Haycraft
  Fontana, 123 pp, £1.00, April 1980, ISBN 0 00 635856 X

We are now well into the Great Vegetable Revolution. ‘For the majority of the population,’ writes Jane Grigson, ‘vegetables as a delight, to be eaten on their own, belong to this century, even to the period after the Second World War.’ She gives much of the credit for this shift in taste to Elizabeth David, who in the 1950s preached that the fruits of the earth were more than mere adjuncts to flesh. Now the high price of meat is doing Mrs David’s work for her.